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...Case of Ingestion. Lawyer Colin also alerted John Canaday, art editor of the New York Times, who had given the show a rhapsodic review when it was on display in Provincetown. Only when the story seemed ripe to break did Canaday rush to Ottawa to review the show again. This time he echoed what the association had been saying all along, explained his goof of last summer as being due to the intoxicating air of Cape Cod and "the ingestion of seafood platters.'' Now the curious story began to unfold in public, and the Chrysler catalogue itself became...
...shattered fortunes, is determined to govern as long as the House will have it-or at least until John Diefenbaker senses an advantageous issue on which to go to the country. Nobel Prizewinner Lester B. Pearson's opposition Liberals, controlling 100 seats and sensing that their time is ripe, are equally keen to bring the Tories down for an election, if possible before Christmas. The government's life thus hangs by the thread of approval of two minor parties that hold the tender balance of power: the right-wing Social Credit (30 seats) and the socialist New Democratic...
...inadequate," called on the two minor parties to support a Liberal motion of no-confidence in the government this week. They in turn denounced the legislative agenda as vigorously as Pearson, suggesting that while they might not join him this week, they will when they think the time is ripe...
When asked to characterize the present state of the economy-is it good? will it get worse?-the men who are closest to it take refuge in jargon. Economist George Cloos of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank prefers that ripe-sounding phrase "high-level stagnation." Swift & Co. Economist Willard Arant calls it "high-level stability." Professor J. Keith Butters of the Harvard Business School thinks that the economy is in "a sidewise movement" after "an inadequate recovery." One top corporate economist calls the present economy "a rolling kind of thing"; another figures it is in "a sputtering phase"; and still...
...interprets it as a sign that speculative pressure has ended and cuts margins. Currently, credit to securities buyers stands at $5 billion-about 12% below the figure when the market started slipping from its alltime high last December; so, in the Fed's eyes, the time was ripe for a cut to what many brokers regard as the "normal" margin...